Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals

ASBCA DecisionsIntelligence

Search every Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals decision and read grounded, citation-verified AI legal analysis. Win rates by issue, semantic search, a citation knowledge graph, and a research agent over the full corpus, with every case one click from the official ruling.

4,668

Decisions

FROM ASBCA.MIL

4,606

Cases AI-Analyzed

GROUNDED LEGAL BRIEFS

2010–2026

Years Covered

DECISION DATE RANGE

52

Board Judges

IN THE ANALYZED CORPUS

49%

Appellant Win Rate

SUSTAINED + PARTIAL

51%

Government Win Rate

APPEALS DENIED

5%

DCAA Involved

OF ANALYZED CASES

32

Issue Types Tracked

TAXONOMY-CLASSIFIED

Overview

What is the ASBCA?

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) is the forum that hears and decides contract disputes between government contractors and the Department of War, NASA, and other agencies under the Contract Disputes Act.

Its decisions are the case law of government contracting — cost allowability under FAR Part 31, CAS compliance, terminations, delay and disruption, the statute of limitations, DCAA audits, and more. For contractors, counsel, and compliance teams, they are the clearest signal of how the Board actually rules.

GovConDash brings together the full corpus from asbca.mil and layers grounded AI analysis on top, so you can search, compare, and understand decades of decisions in minutes, with every claim traceable to the source PDF.

What the corpus covers

Issues

Cost allowability, CAS, terminations, delay/disruption, REAs, statute of limitations, jurisdiction

Parties

Contractors vs. DoD components, NASA, and other agencies

Oversight

DCAA and DCMA involvement flagged from the record

Source

Official decision PDFs published at asbca.mil

Anti-hallucination by design

Statistics and case facts are retrieved from the grounded corpus, never invented. AI analysis is labeled, citation-verified against the source text, and scored for grounding. Every decision links out to the official asbca.mil PDF so you can verify any point yourself.

Platform

Built for contract professionals

A complete research workflow over the ASBCA corpus, grounded in the record and tuned for government contracting counsel, compliance, and business development.

Grounded AI Legal Analysis

Every analyzed case becomes a structured legal brief — synopsis, holding, issues presented, standard of review, disposition, and a quantum table — written in a neutral legal register for counsel and compliance teams.

Deterministic Grounding & Citations

Every cited authority, supporting quote, and dollar amount is string-matched back to the source PDF and assigned a grounding score. Citations cross-link to the FAR Library and eCFR. Nothing is asserted that is not in the record.

Semantic & Hybrid Search

Search by concept, not just keywords — "DCAA cost disallowance on a CPFF contract" surfaces the right cases through pgvector embeddings fused with full-text search.

Citation Knowledge Graph

A GraphRAG knowledge graph links cases, authorities, judges, agencies, and issues — traverse the citation network and let the agent reason over connected decisions.

Corpus Insights

Win rates by issue type, the issue-by-outcome heatmap, judge tendencies, CAS standards litigated, and awarding-agency intelligence — the patterns across decades of decisions.

AI Research Agent

Ask questions in plain language across the entire corpus. The agent retrieves, reasons, and answers — citing only the cases it actually pulled, each one click from the official PDF.

Contract-Type Enrichment

Cases are cross-referenced to USAspending.gov by their contract number to resolve the pricing/vehicle type and awarding sub-agency and office — clearly labeled as external context.

Always Source-Linked

The corpus comes directly from asbca.mil and every row links to the official ruling PDF. AI analysis is labeled and grounded in the source text, so you can verify any point in one click.

Corpus Insights

The patterns behind the decisions

Live aggregates over 4,606 AI-analyzed cases. Where appellants win, how appeals are disposed, and where litigation concentrates.

Where Appellants Win — by Issue Type
Share of decided cases the appellant won (sustained or partially sustained), 2010–2026. Issues above the corpus average are highlighted; n = decided cases.
Liquidated Damages
Quantum / Damages
Inspection / Acceptance …
Cost Accounting Standard…
Government-Furnished Pro…
Delay / Disruption / Sus…
Equitable Adjustment (RE…
Contract Changes / Const…
Mistake / Reformation
Statute of Limitations /…
Contract Formation / Exi…
Termination for Default
CDA Jurisdiction
Accord & Satisfaction / …
Other
Failure to Prosecute / D…
Corpus avg 49%
64%n 36
60%n 301
59%n 27
57%n 35
57%n 21
57%n 111
54%n 68
54%n 123
36%n 14
29%n 123
26%n 94
24%n 151
24%n 554
19%n 776
16%n 605
6%n 230
Appellants prevail most often on
  • Liquidated Damages64%
  • Quantum / Damages60%
  • Inspection / Acceptance / Wa…59%
Least often on
  • Failure to Prosecute / Dismi…6%
  • Other16%
  • Accord & Satisfaction / Rele…19%

Win rate = (sustained + partially sustained) ÷ decided cases for that issue. Issues with fewer than 10 decided cases are omitted. Verify against source PDFs.

Decisions by Year
Analyzed decisions over time.
Outcome Distribution
How analyzed appeals were disposed.
Cases by Issue Type
Cell area is the number of cases carrying the issue, grouped by issue family. A case can carry several.
  • Procedural / Jurisdiction982
  • Performance & Changes942
  • Formation & Authority925
  • Other623
  • Cost & Pricing413
  • Termination202
  • Payment48
Issue tags shown4,135

Not shown: Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), Liquidated Damages, Indirect Rates / Incurred Cost, Inspection / Acceptance / Warranty / Latent Defects, Statutory Compliance, Government-Furnished Property, CPARS / Past-Performance Evaluation, Mistake / Reformation, Defective Pricing / TINA, Acceleration, Reprocurement / Excess Costs, Novation / Assignment (234 tags, each too small a share to draw).

This is a fraction of what is inside.

The full dashboard adds judge tendencies, the issue-by-outcome heatmap, CAS standards litigated, awarding-agency intelligence, top-cited authorities, semantic and hybrid search, a knowledge graph, and an AI research agent over the entire corpus.

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Case Brief

ASBCA Case Brief

A narrative client-alert on a single decision, grounded end to end in the analyzed record. It leads with the governing principle, pairs each party's argument with the Board's holding, situates the case among similar decisions, and closes with practical takeaways for contractors.

ASBCA No. 63878DSME Construction Co., Ltd.

Hallucinated Citations, Real Sanctions

  • The Board struck the appellant's surreply for citing cases that do not exist, but declined to dismiss the appeal itself.
  • Leave to amend was denied on the appellant's lack of candor about how the fictitious citations entered its briefs.
  • Careless citation practice risks sanctions whether or not generative AI produced the errors.
“Filing briefs without taking the necessary care in their preparation, including reliance on fictitious opinions or incorrect citations, whether AI-generated or not, risks sanctions.”
The governing principle, grounded in the decision record
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A verified analysis, end to end

The full AI analysis for ASBCA 63286 · Honeywell International, Inc. — a professional analysis of the ASBCA decision with verified-in-source citations and an embedded knowledge graph. This is exactly what you get inside GovConDash for every analyzed decision.

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Decision
Decision Browser

Browse every decision

Search 4,668 decisions by appellant, ASBCA number, or judge, and filter by year. Each row links to the official ruling PDF on asbca.mil.

See the full list of decision summaries

Decision DateASBCA NumberAppellant / PetitionerPDF
October 2, 2026
63517-ADR63850-ADR
Bodell Construction Company

Cates-Harman

October 2, 2026
63580-ADR
Procal Electric, Inc.

Sweet

October 1, 2026
64120
Africa Transport Logistics Company

McLish

October 1, 2026
64328
Kearfott Corporation

Wilson

October 1, 2026
64606
Relyant Global, LLC

Wilson

October 1, 2026
64651
Relyant Global, LLC

Wilson

September 30, 2026
6259162783
Huffman Construction, LLC

Hamady

September 30, 2026
6319663431
Martin Brothers Construction

Eyester

September 30, 2026
6353963540
Korte Construction Company

O'Connell

September 29, 2026
64484
GiaMed Alliance JV, LLC

Wilson

September 24, 2026
63405
Vigor Marine, LLC

Eyester

September 24, 2026
64321
US Military Corp

Arnett

September 23, 2026
63676
WEB LLC/WEBCO

McIlmail

September 23, 2026
64167
Environet, Inc.

McLish

September 23, 2026
6423564236
Relyant Global LLC

McIlmail

September 22, 2026
61612
Scot Cardillo dba Engineers Tooling Support

McIlmail

September 22, 2026
64085
Arctic Swan Construction Inc.

Woodrow

September 22, 2026
64648
DCS Corporation

Wilson

September 15, 2026
645966459764598
Wild Hare Haulers, LLC

Wilson

September 14, 2026
64327
Hensel Phelps Construction Company

McLish

September 10, 2026
64588
ERM Safety, Inc.

Hamady

September 10, 2026
6459964600
Industrial Marine Inc.

Wilson

September 9, 2026
640386433664428
Bahadir Construction Engineering Contracting & Trading Inc. Co. and Impreza Costruzioni Giuseppe Maltauro S.p. A Joint Venture

D'Alessandris

September 9, 2026
64054
Hexagon U.S. Federal, Inc.

Hamady

September 9, 2026
641386413964140641416414264143641446414564146641476414864149641506415164152641536415464155641566415764158641596421064211642126421364214642156421664217642186421964220643666436764368644406444164473
HomeSafe Alliance, LLC

Wilson

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